After weeks of wrangling over debate rules, President Donald J. Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden meet Tuesday, head-to-head, at Cleveland’s Case-Western Reserve University in the first of three planned encounters.
The sparks off-stage will likely dwarf anything that happens during the actual event. Voter interest is high according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released hours before the two men took the stage. The poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters indicated a “vast majority” of likely voters are probably going to watch though most believe the Trump/Biden debates are far less important than Mr. Trump’s engagements with former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The pre-debate battle to set expectations has been seized by the Trump campaign to suggest repeatedly that the former vice-president is not up to the challenge. “Joe Biden’s handlers several days ago agreed to a pre-debate inspection for electronic earpieces but today abruptly reversed themselves and declined,” Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director said Tuesday.
Murtaugh then continued the attack, adding “Biden’s handlers have asked for multiple breaks during the debate, which President Trump doesn’t need, so we have rejected that request. On top of the refusal to take a drug test, it seems pretty obvious that the Biden team is looking for any safety net they can find in the hours leading up to the debate. With his 47 years as a failed Washington politician, how much help does Biden want?”
The longtime senator from Delaware has a reputation for being an experienced debater with a vast reservoir of facts about the government and how it functions available to him at an instant thanks to a nearly 50-year career in public life. Post-debate analysts generally awarded Biden the victory after debates with his GOP opponents, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008 and then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in 2012.
The looming Trump/Biden clash has generated newsworthy copy, particularly the President’s call for his opponent to take a drug test before, during, or after their encounter. Biden’s health and the possibility he is not being candid with the American electorate about his mental state is an issue Trump has repeatedly tried to drag into the contest. The former vice president has refused such requests and, to up the ante, released both his and running mate Kamala Harris 2019 tax returns hours before the proceedings began, signaling perhaps that Biden intends to make the New York Times recent in-depth reporting on what it claimed were leaked copies of Trump’s tax returns a major issue in their first meeting.
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Peter Roff is affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations and is a former U.S. News and World Report contributing editor who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
Biden should not need any special treatment, he is running for president and if he thinks he should have a break every 30 minutes and refuses to have anyone check for ear devices then he shouldn’t be running for president. He is a sneaky and lying old man and also a danger to little girls. I can’t understand why anyone would vote him in.
All damn dem leaders being deceitful, liars are treasonous U.S. enemies !
Tell em Jean !
When the voter fraud is massive enough, the Democrats don’t care if anyone votes for him. My estimate is there will be 13 million fraudulent votes. Why so many. In 2016 there were 8 million fraudulent votes and it was not enough to steal the election. They don’t plan on losing this time
Biden was wearing a wire….there are pictures of this
Saw a photo of Biden with a wire up his arm and he touched his ear a lpt
biden is no good. I receive 888 from SS biden receives over 49,000.00 plus he receives over 280,000.00 from his work in the Senate. plus receives other income from investments and income from previous employment. that that no good sob wants me to vote for him. NOT in my life time
There was absolutely on the long-standing agreed upon rules requiring drug tests. Biden doesn’t have to agree to having one. Besides it shuts down Trumps latest distraction and will piss him off no end. That’s a plus in my book. It’s not like Trump is anybody important or carries any weight over the debates.
Go get your green card and chill the F– out. and by way stop watching to much CNN and the other idiots that hate Trump
I enjoy it immensely when you sow up and show off your mental prowess.
Always entertaining.
The Kitchen is heating up.
I doubt biden will like it much.
BUT, he claims to be a master chef…..
Master Baiter is more like it.
You mean that 78-yr old has-been can still get a hard-on?
how exactly did the liberal rag New York Times supposedly get years and years of the president’s tax returns?…..Confidential informant?…nonsense…somebody needs to seriously go to jail for a very very long time. Barr needs to be all over that
Just remember a vote for Biden will elect the next President of the United States, Kamala Harris. Vote Trump on Nov 3, 2020
Khlamydia Hairyass
NO WAY. HE HAS DEMENTIA…..DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO RUIN THE COUNTRY,PERIOD!
The biden 30 min break is proof his stamina is 3miles below whale crap & sinking with the dem libtard leaders as anchors creating their own deserved demise ! Sick.
I’m not watching. The fighting makes me nervous.
Due to previous commitments, I am stuck… watching this in Replay.
However, after seeing our President in previous debates, I am not worried.
I fully expect Biden to try to get his licks in, but they’ll only be very minor scratches. I have faith that, President Trump will handle that ….with ease.
YRUMP2020-!!?
GOD, Keep Blessing the USA-!!!
TRUMP 2020! MIKE PENCE 2020! GOD BLESS U.S.A.
When the people who are declaring the winner are nothing more than the cheering section for Biden, what do you expect. The pronouncement before the debate was that IF Biden was still just standing at the end of the debate, the leftist “news:” analyzers would declare he was the winner.
The little I saw of it showed Biden constantly interrupting Trump (yes Trump; returned that) and he refused to take any positive stand on ANY issue. That included refusing to say who was on his list of SCOTUS appointments or why anyone would want to vote for him.
FOLKS; expect massive voter fraud. Just like the POLLS are fake and designed to provide COVER for that voter fraud. They will say, LOOK, THE POLLS TOLD YOU BIDEN WOULD WIN. when the magnitude of the fraud is astounding.
I think that President Trump did very well even by debating Biden and Chris Wallace